Etymologies

Examples

"Is it possible that _the bold adventurer can fix his thoughts on you_, and still be dejected _at the thoughts_ that a bonny blue-eyed lass looked favourably on a less-lucky fellow than himself?" vol. 2, p. 136.

You never cease telling us, that the designs of God are impenetrable; that _his ways are not our ways, nor his thoughts our thoughts_; that it is absurd to complain of his administration, of the motives and springs of which we are totally ignorant; that it is presumption to tax his judgments with injustice, because we cannot comprehend them.

You will begin to perceive that what you thought was a matter of no serious importance; that your thoughts on any subject are not perhaps the clearest and wisest that could be arrived at thereupon: in fact, that unless you are a very singular person, you cannot be said to have any thoughts at all; that you have no materials for them, in any serious matters; 5no right to think,  but only to try to learn more of the facts.

IV. vi.80 (450,3) Bear free and patient thoughts] To be melancholy is to have the mind _chained down_ to one painful idea; there is therefore great propriety in exhorting Glo'ster to _free thoughts_, to an emancipation of his soul from grief and despair.